Karen Hodson is a Director of Fullarton House and is a highly sought after Educational Psychologist with 22 years’ experience in supporting students with dyslexia and other learning difficulties. She has conducted thousands of assessments and has extensive understanding of dyslexia across the life span.

Sally Andrew holds a Postgraduate Diploma in Dyslexia and Literacy from the University of York, UK. Sally has been tutoring students with dyslexia for 19 years and has trained many parents and educators in evidence based multisensory interventions for dyslexia. Sally is the director of By Your Side Tutoring.

Bill Hansberry is a Director of Fullarton House and a graduate of levels 1-3 of Teaching Students with Dyslexia. Bill has been teaching students with dyslexia in his private practice for 13 years. Bill is co-developer of the Playberry Dyslexia Solutions Multisensory Literacy Program and is featured in the Australian Dyslexia Documentary ‘Outside the Square’.

This level 1 course is designed to provide teachers, educational support staff, tutors and parents with an understanding of the learning style of students with dyslexia .The main focus will be to introduce participants to content and methodology most effective when tutoring in a withdrawal situation. It will also provide participants with knowledge and strategies to cater for the children’s needs in the classroom

This three day program is based on research (Oakland, Black, Stanford et al., 1998) which indicates that remedial instruction for students with dyslexia needs to incorporate:

Highly structured phonetic-instruction training with a heavy emphasis on the alphabetic system.

Drill and repetition are also necessary to compensate for difficulties in verbal working memory.

Multi-sensory methods are required to help anchor verbal information through non-language mental representations.

Learning objectives need to be highly sequential because the logic of language structure may escape these students.

Comprehension and metacognitive processes need to be taught to assist these students in the conscious use of language rule systems to guide their reading and spelling.

The course combines theory and practice, but practical teaching strategies are the main focus. Observation of Alison tutoring children is part of the course. Participants will be given a certificate to verify their attendance and completion of the course. For those seeking further training in the methodology advocated for tutoring students with dyslexia, aLevel 2 Course will be conducted at a later date.

TSD2Teaching Students with Dyslexia

Level 2

The Level 2 Course will focus on the practical application of a structured multi-sensory program and will follow the Playberry program structure. Participants will be required to prepare a full lesson and teach it to a partner on the final day.

Karen Hodson is a Director of Fullarton House and is a highly sought after Educational Psychologist with 20 years’ experience in supporting students with dyslexia and other learning difficulties. She has conducted thousands of assessments and has extensive understanding of dyslexia across the life span.

Sally Andrew holds a Postgraduate Diploma in Dyslexia and Literacy from the University of York, UK. Sally has been tutoring students with dyslexia for 17 years and has trained many parents and educators in evidence based multisensory interventions for dyslexia. Sally is the director of By Your Side Tutoring.

Bill Hansberry is a Director of Fullarton House and a graduate of levels 1-3 of Teaching Students with Dyslexia. Bill has been teaching students with dyslexia in his private practice for 10 years. Bill is co-developer of the Playberry Dyslexia Solutions Multisensory Literacy Program and is featured in the Australian Dyslexia Documentary ‘Outside the Square’.

Program

Topics will include:

Programming and evaluating progress

Preparing structured, multi-sensory worksheets

What is Dyslexia; Interpreting psycho-educational reports with Annette

Preparing structured reading material

Visual analysis of words through coding

Written expression

Working with multi-syllable words

Study skills and memory strategies

Certification: Certificates will be issued to participants completing the course